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NBC News said it would air an hour-long primetime special on May 28 featuring an exclusive interview between " NBC Nightly News " anchor Brian Williams and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden . The talk will be Snowden's first interview with an American television outlet, the NBCUniversal news unit said. The special is slated to air Wednesday, May 28, at 10 p.m. Eastern. NBC News said Williams traveled to Moscow this week after anchoring Monday's "NBC Nightly News" to conduct the discussion with Snowden, who has remained in exile in Russia after disclosing in 2013 multiple NSA documents making plain the existence of various global surveillance program.

" Fox News Sunday " scored a rare ratings achievement last week when it edged out NBC's " Meet the Press " as the most popular Sunday morning public affairs program in our nation's capital. Washington, D.C. is only a small portion of the country, but it's an important one when it comes to reaching lawmakers and others who set the country's political agenda. And last Sunday, according to Nielsen estimates, the Fox broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" drew 70,000 viewers in the D.C. market on WTTG -- more than three times its audience there on the comparable Sunday a year ago. NBC's "Meet the Press," the usual ratings leader in Washington, was close behind at 69,000, followed by CBS' "Face the Nation" (41,000)

NBC News has poached Jamie Horowitz from ESPN to become the senior VP and general manager of the "Today" show. Horowitz, who currently serves as VP of original programming and production at ABC sister network ESPN, will oversee all three aspects of "Today" -- the morning shows, the website and the concert series at Rockefeller Plaza -- effective Dec. 1. NBC has been working to bring Horowitz on board as early as January; he will be...

CBS News has tapped former NBC News president Steve Capus as exec producer of " CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley." He'll also serve as executive editor of CBS News. Capus left NBC News amid a shakeup at the division early last year. He was at the Peacock for 20 years, spending the last eight as division prexy. At CBS, Capus will report to CBS News president David Rhodes. He replaces Patricia Shevlin at the helm of the Eye's flagship newscast. Shevlin had been the show's exec producer since 2011.

(Reuters) - CBS said Tuesday it has hired Steve Capus, former president of NBC News, as executive producer of its evening news program and executive editor of its news division. Beginning July 7, Capus will oversee the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, and will serve as an editorial resource to all of CBS's news programs, including "60 Minutes. " He will report to CBS News President David Rhodes and replaces Pat Shevlin, who is now a producer for "60 Minutes. " Capus was president of NBC News for eight years and left the company last year after its parent Comcast Corp reorganized the division.

NBC News said it would name a new broadcast facility located on the lot of Universal Studios after longtime NBC News journalist and former chief "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw . The "Brokaw News Center," will house the West Coast operations of NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC and Telemundo News and local stations NBC4 Southern California/KNBC and Telemundo 52/KVEA. Brokaw has spent nearly his entire career with NBC News, starting as a Los Angeles bureau correspondent and a KNBC anchor, then of course rising to anchor NBC's evening news.

The Discovery Channel will broadcast the 90-min documentary, "Everest Avalanche Tragedy," as a tribute to all the Sherpas and their families affected by the recent Mt. Everest avalanche. On April 18, members of an NBC News crew were located at an Everest base camp to prepare for the Discovery live special " Everest Jump Live " when the deadliest single-day avalanche hit, killing 13 sherpa guides. (The live event has since been canceled). "We were at Mt. Everest to make history, but instead we were there as eyewitnesses to history," said Eileen O'Neill, group president, Discovery, Science and Velocity Networks.

Mount Everest's deadliest avalanche ever, which killed at least 12 people early Friday, raises questions about whether Discovery Channel 's "Everest Jump Live" special, set to air May 11, will go on as planned. The avalanche struck and killed 12 sherpas, who guide climbers to the summit, leaving four missing. NBC News had a crew of seven in place at a Mount Everest base camp, including Jonathan Fierro, a producer with NBC's Peacock Productions and cameraman Ed Wardle.

Fox News said it had signed "Fox News Sunday" moderator Chris Wallace to a new "multi-year" deal that would keep the veteran anchor on the network for "years to come," in the words of the outlet's top executive, Roger Ailes . Since joining the 21st Century Fox-owned network in 2003, Wallace has moderated "Fox News Sunday," a one-hour public affairs program presented on Fox Broadcasting Company and later replayed on Fox News Channel ...